PHI-2635 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: John Stuart Mill, Kantian Ethics, Bioethics
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Be able to describe the serology and std arms of the study. ** serology - a diagnostic tool to detect antibodies indicative of infection (the khan, mazzini, Blood was drawn and subjected to one or more different syphilis testing methods that would indicate whether the blood contained antibodies against syphilis. If antibodies were present, the conclusion was that a subject had either an active syphilitic infection or a previous infection. Lumbar punctures were sometimes conducted to confirm the results of blood tests or to look for infection in the spinal fluid that might not have been found using blood tests. The terre haute experiments had shown the difficulty of reliably producing infection, at least for gonorrhea, through artificial inoculation. Dr. mahoney later observed in the journal of. Venereal disease information (july 1947) that undertaking research in guatemala offered new opportunities unavailable in the united states. It was bad for postwar experiments (get out of us law)